The Block analyzed 48 exchanges and their monthly traffic in the last 6 months (ranging from November 2018 to April 2019) to help paint a picture of real volumes in the cryptocurrency market. The top 10 exchanges sorted by reported volume in the last six months are BitMax, Binance, OKEx, DigiFinex, Huobi, ZB.COM, Bit-Z, CoinBene, LBank and BitForex; only one of which does not fake volume according to Bitwise. It is very hard to estimate the magnitude of volume faked by each exchange, but we could use itBit ($5,700 of volume per website visit) as the ceiling and estimate for the maximum amount of real volume on a given exchange (assuming website visits are not severely understated for Asian exchanges).

After this major breakthrough, we spent the days left before Christmas to adjust the Seoul VMM to the new VM interface, freeing it from the ties to the NOVA kernel. With the New Year, VirtualBox was the next target where all NOVA kernel specific calls were replaced with the new Genode VM interface. The former relies on NOVA’s kernel interface whereas the latter uses Genode’s kernel-agnostic VM interface.

Where these two motivations meet, a business idea is born: “Let’s create a tool that makes building software as easy as drawing up a flow diagram!” At this point, the interface business has the client excited and ready to begin replacing all their expensive software engineers with business analysts who are experts at mapping business flow. Rather than spend time on a Quixotic adventure in low code, find a dozen good software engineers, and free them to use the most expensive tools available.

I could write up an entire essay about all the shady practices that most news sites are guilty of, but here are just a few top level issues:

If your business is solely dependent on tracking scripts, tricking users with clickbait titles and using archaic ads – then you’re destined to fail regardless. News outlets should not be spamming their main revenue supply (the users) or misleading people with false information. If you’re a regular consumer of news and you happen to run across a platform that is guilty of any of these practices, shoot them an email explaining why you won’t be returning to their website (unless they change their ways).

Google don’t even do fancy AI magic to truncate these messages. Oh, and as a bonus, if you click on “View entire message” – you get the old version of Gmail and Google’s logo. You’d think in the last four years, someone on the Gmail team would have received a long email and then filed a bug report.

AMP continues to be a large part of the way people view web content on mobile devices. By AMP’s way of thinking, it’s a better user experience for Google to syndicate your content, so they’ll just go ahead and do this without paying you for it (it’s opt in, but see coercion). In AMP, the support for paywalls is based on a recommendation that the premium content be included in the source of the page regardless of the user’s authorisation state.

The Block analyzed 48 exchanges and their monthly traffic in the last 6 months (ranging from November 2019 to April 2019) to help paint a picture of real volumes in the cryptocurrency market. The top 10 exchanges sorted by reported volume in the last six months are BitMax, Binance, OKEx, DigiFinex, Huobi, ZB.COM, Bit-Z, CoinBene, LBank and BitForex; only one of which does not fake volume according to Bitwise. It is very hard to estimate the magnitude of volume faked by each exchange, but we could use itBit ($5,700 of volume per website visit) as the ceiling and estimate for the maximum amount of real volume on a given exchange (assuming website visits are not severely understated for Asian exchanges).

Driving the news: Intuit said Tuesday it had agreed to buy analytics company Origami Logic, effectively doubling down on the use of customer data to enhance its marketing. But if it shows you a marketing offer and you go for it — perhaps you do want that Capital One card or Lending Club loan — your consent means Intuit “may exchange your information” with the other company, Intuit’s privacy statement says. But the company’s privacy statement is more qualified: It says Intuit doesn’t sell or share customer data with third parties for their own commercial uses “without your consent.”

The Malaysian government will send back up to 100 tonnes of Australian plastic waste because it was too contaminated to recycle, but will not yet name the companies responsible. Since then, waste management companies have found new markets in other countries, many in south-east Asia. “It is unethical for Australia to send its non-recyclable, residual waste … to be burnt in cement kilns in other countries, effectively escaping Australian regulatory responsibility,” she said.

How do we get to this number? The entry price for low-end Android is now well under $50, and cellular data connectivity is relatively expensive for people earning less than $10 or $5 a day (and yes, all of these people are getting phones). The use of these devices also matters: people who buy high-end phones tend to use them more.